Thesis Proposals Spring 2008

• A Mediation Model to Predict Career Choice:  The importance of Self-Efficacy and Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Work-Related Motivations.
  Katherine L. Andriole
  January 17, 2008
   
• The Effect of Stimulus Novelty on Saccade Trajectories.
  Rebecca R. Goldstein
  January 18, 2008
   
• Mutual Exclusivity in Bilingual Word Learning.
  Joshua M. Feldblyum
  January 23, 2008
   
• A Test of the Adaptation Theory of Figure Reversal:  Selective Adaptation as a Function of Physical Stimulus Variation.
  Michael J. Gillen
  January 23, 2008
   
• What Type of Extra-Textual Input is Optimal for Preschoolers' Vocabulary Learning during Storybook Reading.
  Autumn B. Wyant
  January 24, 2008
   
• Relationships and Social Context in Trait Judgments:  Self-Other Agreement in Siblings Versus Peers.
  Meghan J. Rose
  January 24, 2008
   
• Common Arm Preferences in the Radial Arm Maze as an Alternate Explanation for Paired Rats' Attraction Tendencies.
  Toni-Moi N. Prince
  February 28, 2008
   
• Impact of Strength-Versus Problem-Focus in the Revision of Creative Ideas.
  Matthew D. Wood
  March 13, 2008
   
• Stigmatization of HIV/AIDS Positive Individuals.
  Erin Ann Brennan
  March 14, 2008
   
• Effect of Implementation Intentions on Healthy Eating Behavior as a Function of Self-Schema Status
  Rebecca Leigh Ritter
  May 20, 2008
   
• Investigation of an Anomalous Non-linear Decline in Tickle Sensitivity.
  Olufunsho K. Faseyitan
  July 31, 2008
   
• Predicting Treatment Process Variables in Outpatient Psychotherapy.
  Thomas A. Kavanagh
  July 31, 2008

Thesis Proposals Fall 2007

• Is it Better to be Right or Polite?  Sex Differences in Detecting Deception in the Contexts of Attraction and Friendship.
  Stephanie J. Ficiak
  July 27, 2007
   
• Evaluating the ABC Model of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Theory:  An Analysis of the Relationship between Irrational Thinking and Guilt.
  Peter E. Jensen
  September 7, 2007
   
• The Effects of Imagined and Experienced Regret on Risk Avoidance in a Gambling Task
  Jessica R. Landers
  October 1, 2007
   
• Are Infants Attracted to the Larger Range of Motion in Motionese?
  Astrid S. D'Cunha
  October 26, 2007
   
• The Effect of Age and Stimulus Novelty on Attentional Capture.
  Jennifer L. Fleming
  November 1, 2007
   
• Relationship Quality and Goal Agreement among Emerging Adults and Their Parents.
  Lindsay C. Morton
  December 7, 2007
   
• Relationship Quality and the Complementarity of Interpersonal Behaviors among Parent-Child Dyads.
  Wendy C. Eichler
  December 10, 2007
   
• Dissociating Clock Speed and Attention in Modality Effect.
  Christopher M. Magaro
  December 14, 2007
   
• A Test for the Configural Nature of Episodic-like Memory.
  Karen E. Doyle
  December 19, 2007

Thesis Proposals Spring 2007

• How Do Subjects Use Judgments of Item Difficulty to Guide Study Strategies in Selection of Spaced or Massed Practice?:  A Comparison of Theories.
  Michael S. Cohen
  January 19, 2007
   
• The Effect of Punishment on the Actor/Observer Asymmetry in Risky Decision Making.
  Timothy C. Wifall
  January 19, 2007
   
• Global Operations Theory of the Interval Timing Clock:  Emergence of the Clock from Cortico-triatal-thalamic Loop Activity.
  Casey A. Murray
  January 26, 2007
   
• Social Class Differences in Shared Book Reading Experiences.
  Megan Fedor
  February 2, 2007
   
• The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Infant-directed Action:  An Exploration into Individual Differences.
  William Christiana
  February 2, 2007
   
• The Moderating Role of the Five Factor Model of Personality on Anxiety following Computer Mediated Interaction.
  Lindsay Rice
  February 13, 2007
   
• The Effects of Immediate and Delayed Feedback following Correct or Incorrect Responses on the Long Term Retention of Paired Associate Learning.
  Abby Costello
  February 16, 2007
   
• Teaching Accuracy in Judgments of Conscientiousness.
  Sara Lowmaster
  March 29, 2007
   
• Are Implicit Motives "Visible" to Well Acquainted Informant Peers?
  James R. Daugherty
  April 12, 2007
   
• Investigating the Goal Bias Effect in Attention during the Processing of Action Scenes.
  Leah C. Rusinko
  April 20, 2007
   
•  An Animal Model of the Migration Effect.
  Arlington G. Wilson
  May 10, 2007
   
• Development of Traits and Motives across the Lifespan.
  John B. Phebus, Jr.
  May 11, 2007

Thesis Proposals Spring 2006

• Enhanced Attention to Infant-directed Action:  Do Infants Prefer "Motionese?"
  Wendy L. Shallcross
  January 25, 2006
   
• Fast Detection of Familiar Things:  Detecting the Soccer Ball in the Grass
  C. Josh Simpson
  January 25, 2006
   
• Capturing Time:  How the Thalamus Checks Time and Switches
  Martin Wiener
  February 1, 2006
   
• The Mutual Exclusivity Bias in Children's Word Learning:  The Role of Cognitively Demanding Circumstances and Speakers' Communicative Intent
  Amy Lee Burk
  February 1, 2006
   
• Contrasting "Rich" and "Minimal" Models of Metacognition:  Exploring the Possible Role of Reversal Learning in Strategy Selection
  Mary Elizabeth L. Knight
  February 3, 2006
   
• The Effect of Stimulus Type on Children's Spontaneous Inductions:  Using Recognition Memory as an Indicator of Categorization
  Maura G. Sabatos
  February 15, 2006
   
• Uncovering the "Slow Mapping" Process of Word Learning Through Word Definition and Word Association Tasks
  Alexis Lynn Dolena
  February 17, 2006
   
• Positive Self-Presentation Strategies in Structures Personality Assessment:  The Effects of Job Applicant and Child Custody Contexts
  Courtney Lee Posey
  February 22, 2006
   
• Racial Categorization of Ethnically Ambiguous Faces and the Cross-Race Effect
  Shaun Baldwin
  April 21, 2006
   
• The Effect of Tests on Learning:  The Role of the Opportunity to Retrieve
  Regina N. Coles
  June 5, 2006

Thesis Proposals Fall 2005

• The Second-to-Fourth Digit Ratio and the Female Waist-to-Hip Ratio
  Martin Wasielewski
  June 8, 2005
   
• The Role of the Supplementary Motor Area in Interval Timing:  Direct Pharmacological Manipulation and Its Effects on Temporally Based Behavior
  Jason T. Drott
  June 16, 2005
   
• In the Dark about Light:  The Effects of Artificial Illumination in Impulsivity
  Kara Phaedra Massie
  September 29, 2005
   
• Retrospective Complementarity and the Interpersonal Situation
  Aidan Wright
  October 28, 2005
   
• Violent Video Games and Aggression:  The Moderating Role of Personality
  Gary Giumetti
  November 1, 2005
   
• An Investigation of Sex Differences in Spatial Cognition Predicted by the Hunter Gatherer Hypothesis Using a Human Analog of the Pole-Box Task
  Edward Lorek
  November 16, 2005
   
• The Role of Hope and Expectations in Performance Outcomes
  Sevie Shuman
  November 18, 2005
   
• Spatial Capture Following Attentional Engagement:  Particular to Certain Classes of Stimuli
  Edward Ester
  November 22, 2005
   
• The Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Infidelity:  An Evolutionary Perspective
  Ana Mills
  November 22, 2005
   
• The Associations of Universal Value Types With the Big 5 Personality Traits and Individualism-Collectivism in Lebanon and the United States
  Maya Mroue Boustani
  December 2, 2005
   
• Interpersonal Dependency:  A Personality Trait or a Relationship Status Variable?
  Rachel Lauren Bachrach
  December 9, 2005

Thesis Proposals Spring 2005

• The Comparative Stability of Personality Traits and Attachment Styles across Two Social Contexts
  Erin Bernadette Kornsey
  January 26, 2005
   
• Effects of Quality Reading Styles on Children's Vocabulary Development in Two Socioeconomic Groups
  Stephanie Elaine Shealy
  February 4, 2005
   
• Asking Questions during Shared Book Reading: The Effects of Demand Level on the Acquisition of Novel Vocabulary Words
  Samantha A. Cook
  February 9, 2005
   
• An Investigation into the Relationship between Healthy Eating and Concern with Self-Presentation
  Laura O'Herron
  February 16, 2005
   
• "Acoustic Packaging:" The Role of Infant Directed Speech in Segmenting Action Sequences
  Stephanie L. Tapscott
  March 15, 2005
   
• The Role of Speech in Infants' Action Processing: Do Infants Recognize Temporal Synchrony Between Speech and Action?
  Jelena Stojanovic
  March 15, 2005

Thesis Proposals Fall 2004

• The Effect of Spacing Repetitions in Children's Incidental Free Recall:  Semantic versus Non-Semantic Processing
  Amanda C. Terembula
  September 15, 2004 

• The Effect of Acoustic Noise on Contingent Attentional Capture Under Focused Attention Conditions
  Erica A. Byerly
  October 6, 2004 

• Top-down and Bottom-up Processes in Figural Reversal
  Cindy J. Moran
  October 8, 2004 

• The Effect of Noise and Age on the Useful Field of View
  Linda Maria Cylc
  November 5, 2004 

• The Face-ism Effect Applied to Personal Advertisements
  Audrey A. Cleary
  November 5, 2004 

• The Effect of Signal Duration on the Firing Rate of Striatal Neurons:  Temporal Modulation or Abstract Timing?
  George S. Portugal
  November 9, 2004 

• Patterns of Initial Liking in Unacquainted Female Dyads: A Test of Differing Models of Complementarity
  Elisabeth K. Cherry
  November 10, 2004 

• The Effects of Age on the Contingent Capture of Visual Attention in Space and Time
  Davina S. Rosen
  November 12, 2004 

• Assessing Productivity of Dyadic Interactions in Terms of Three Models of Complementarity
  Holly Serrao
  November 19, 2004 

• Spatial Memory for the Choices Made by another Rat in a Radial-Arm Maze
  Robert F. Farley
  December 20, 2004

Thesis Proposals - Spring 2004

• Item Keying and the "Garden Path" Phenomenon: An Investigation into the Issue of Score Inflation in the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory
  Diane J. Gilman
  January 12, 2004
   
• A Resource Conservation View of the Mutual Exclusivity Effect in Children's Word Learning
  Thomas Piccin
  January 13, 2004
   
• The Effect of Questioning Style During Storybook Reading on Novel Vocabulary Acquisition: Long-term Intervention with Preschoolers from Two Socioeconomic Groups
  Bridget A. Walsh
  January 15, 2004
   
• Development of Infant Action Processing Abilities: Does Infant-Directed Narration Help?
  Elisa N. Gonzalez
  January 16, 2004
   
• Spatial Pattern Learning: Development of a Human Analog of the Pole Box Task
  Aaron D. Upton
  February 25, 2004
   
• Anxiety Sensitivity as a Confounding Variable in the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory
  Susan Elizabeth Bennett
  February 25, 2004
   
• Conformity, Conscientiousness, and the Place of Ego Development in the Five-Factor Model
  Sara B. Mayfield
  March 8, 2004
   
• Motivational Orientation and Physical Activity Self-Definition
  Sean P. Mullen
  March 19, 2004
   
• The Convergent Validity of Two Ego Based Measures of Psychological Maturity
  Rachel E. Schremp
  March 22, 2004
   
• Detecting Attraction: Sex Differences in Decoding Deception
  Shelly Engelman
  May 7, 2004
   
• The Effect of Gender on Tickle Sensitivity: A Test of the Interpersonal Theory of Tickle
  Amy E. Nowlin
  Mary 7, 2004
   
• Irrational Thinking and Neuroticism: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and the Five Factor Model
  Jacqueline Jean Gruber
  May 7, 2004
   
• Psychological Correlates of Detection and Utilization Processes in Accurate Personality Judgment
  Christina M. Bianco
  May 27, 2004

Thesis Proposals - Fall 2003

• Emotions:  Can they bias attention allocation?
  Cynthia Elizabeth Kaschub
  Dec. 5, 2003 at 12:30 in 216 T.
   
• Use of an Abstract Representation of a Spatial Pattern in a Radial-Arm Maze
  Urmo Jaanimagi
  Dec. 11, 2003 at 12:45 in 215 T.

Thesis Proposals - Spring 2003

• The Effect of Lighting on Bulimic Behavior
  Rebecca Ann Wagner
  Jan. 31, 2003 12:45, 216 T.
   
• "Engaging" Attention: Does it Have Implications for Spatial Capture?
  Kristof Troemel
  Feb. 13, 2003 1:00, 216 T.
   
• Social Dominance Orientation and Right-Wing Authoritarianism: Comparing Relationships Among Values Types and Relational Models
  Justin Lehmiller
  Feb. 14, 2003 12:45, 216 T.
   
• Gender Differences in the Accuracy of Interpersonal Trait Judgments at Zero-Acquaintance
  Sarah J. Tarquini
  Feb. 14, 2003 1:30, 216 T.
   
• Do Social/Pragmatic Cues Affect Object Label Extensions in Young Children?
  Emily A. Iobst
  Feb. 19, 2003 4:15, 215 T.
   
• Preschoolers' Novel Vocabulary Acquisition from Shared Book Reading: The Effect of Commentary Placement and Demand-Level
  Keiran M. Rump
  Feb. 26, 2003 4:15, 215 T.
   
• Social/Pragmatic Cue Effects on Children's Mutual Exclusivity Responses in Label Extensions
  Lisa Ann Hirth
  Feb. 28, 2003 12:45, 216 T.
   
• On the Possibility that Underlying Medical Conditions Contribute to Reports of Social Anxiety on the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory: A Frequency Investigation
  Heather K. Johnson
  March 10, 2003 12:45, 102 Mendel
   
• Transfer of Behavioral Control by a Spatial Pattern to a Novel Environment
  Jillian Wintersteen
  March 11, 2003 12:45, 216 T.
   
• Physical Activity Self-Definitions: Comparing the Weights of the Determinants across Different Physical Activities
  Joshua A. Hicks
  March 13, 2003 2:20, 216 T.
   
• Health Eating Self-Schema and Intention Stability among College Students
  Colleen A. Moors
  March 14, 2003 1:30, 216 T.
   
• The Role of Expertise and Self-Monitoring in Prototype Content and Use of Self-to-Prototype Matching Strategy in Physical Activity Self-Definition
  Kara-Lynne Kerr
  March 21, 2003 12:45, 216 T.

Thesis Proposals - Fall 2002

• A Confirmatory Analysis of the Structure of Fiske's Relational Models Theory in Japan and the United States
  Yoko Mor
  Nov 8, 2002 12:45, 216 T.
   
• Evaluating the ABC Model of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Theory: An Analysis of the Relationship between Irrational Thinking and Anger
  Phillip N. Smith
  Dec 11, 2002 12:45, 216 T.

Thesis Proposals - Spring 2002

• Spatial Pattern Discrimination Following Presentation of the Whole Stimulus
  Kelly A. DiGian
  January 16, 2002 12:30, 215 T.
   
• The Effect of Book Reading Style on Children's Acquisition of New Vocabulary Words: The Impact of a Short-term Intervention Program on Two Socioeconomic Groups
  Erin E. Guthridge
  January 23, 2002 12:30, 215 T.
   
• The Effect of Co-Narration Style on Children's Narrative Ability: The Impact of a Short-Term Intervention Program on Two Socioeconomic Groups
  Donna C. Hutchison Lang
  January 24, 2002 12:30, 215 T.
   
• The Effect of Age on the Selective Processing of Multidimensional Objects
  Corinne R. Leach
  February 1, 2002 12:30, 215 T.
   
• The Effects of Flutamide Exposure on Days 15 and 16, 17 and 18, or 19 and 20 of Gestation on Sexual Behaviors of Male Rats
  Melissa M. McClure
  February 5, 2002 4:00pm, 215 T.
   
• How Does Distraction Affect the Perception of Reversible Figures?
  Christopher J. Lotis
  February 6, 2002 12:30, 215 T.
   
• Re-Evaluating the Role of Domain-Specific Mental Sets in Producing the Stroop Effect
  Matthew M. Doran
  March 12, 2002 2:00pm, 215 T.
   
• Do Violations in Expectations Capture Spatial Attention?
  Stefanie M. Yates
  March 19, 2002 2:00pm, 215 T.
   
• Toward a Relational Sense of Fairness: The Moral Implications of Relational Self-Construal for Salary Demands in Negotiations
  Dumitrela A. Negru
  April 22, 2002 12:30pm, 215 T.

Thesis Proposals - Fall 2001

• Self-Other Agreement for Personality Ratings by Parents Versus Peers: A Test of Code Switching in Trait Expression
  Christine A. DiGiacomo
  October 29, 12:45, 216 T.
   
• Openness to Experience and Creativity as Dispositional Factors in Critical Thinking Performance
  Magdalen M. Boufal
  November 16, 12:30, 216T.
   
• An Investigation of the Behavioral Inconsistencies of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory: Social Fear versus Social Blushing
  Regina C. Sims
  November 26, 12:30, 216T.

Thesis Proposals - Spring 2001

• Irrational Thinking and Reactivity to Daily Stressors: Testing the ABC Model Underlying Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
  Yvonne Leslie
  January 18, 12:45, 216 T.
   
• Gender Differences in the Consensus of Interpersonal Trait Judgements at Zero Acquaintance
  Tiara Szostak
  January 30, 12:45, 216 T.
   
• An Investigation of the Behavioral Inconsistencies of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory
  Deana Nordstrom
  February 1, 12:45, 216 T.
   
• The Effects of Stress and Alcohol on the Prenatal Testosterone Surge on Gestational Days 17 and 18 in Male Rats
  John D. Affuso
  February 8, 12:45, 216T.
   
• The Effects of Prenatal Stress and/or Alcohol Exposure on the Prenatal Testosterone Surge in Male Rats on Days 19 and 20 of Gestation
  William D. Long III
  February 9, 12:30, 215T.
   
• The Relationship between Gender and Tickle Sensitivity for the Interpersonal Theory of Tickle
  Andrea J. Lee
  February 15, 12:45, 216 T.
   
• The Association between Fiske's Four Relational Models and the Universal Value Types in Poland and the United States
  Magdalena M. Klimkiewicz
  March 19, 12:30, 314B T.
   
• The Roles of Temporal Spacing and Level of Processing in the Production of a Spacing Effect in Incidental Free Recall
  Greg P. Oakley
  April 5, 12:30, 216 T.
   
• The Correspondence between Vertical and Horizontal Individualism and Collectivism and Fisk's Relational Models in Japan and the United States
  Yoko Hara
  April 27, 12:45, 314B
   
• The Effect of Spacing Repetitions in Children's Intentional and Incidental Free Recall: An Investigation of a Level-of-Processing Approach
  Marissa H. Kiepert
  June 29, 10:30, 237 T.

Thesis Proposals - Fall 2000

• Attentional Control Settings for Motion Stimuli
  Jessica Hackman
  November 14, 12:45, 216T
   
• Aging and Attentional Resolution
  Clare Gideon
  December 14, 12:45, 216T

Thesis Proposals - Spring 2000

• Negative information: Locating a pattern by determining where it is absent
  Elizabeth DiGello
  January 19, 12:45, T216
   
• The effects of socioeconomic status on young children's vocabulary, narrative skills, and word defining abilities: A follow-up study
  Karen Prunner
  February 3, 12:45, T216
   
• The effects of presentation rate and spacing repetitions in cued and free recall of paired-associates
  Karen Hanson
  March 10, 12:30, T216
   
• Gender and interpersonal sensitivity as moderator variables in the association between complementarity and roomate relationship qualtity
  Kristopher Jones
  March 22, 2:30, T216
   
• The effect of visual cues on spatial pattern learning: Cue facilitation or cue competition?
  Sue Yang
  March 23, 12:45, T216
   
• Attentional capture and automatic attentional responses
  Adrienne Zegers
  March 31, 1:30, T216
   
• Initial salary negotiations: The impact of negotiator gender on rate of negotiation and success of outcomes
  John Jenkins
  June 1, 1:30, T216
   
• The Role of Perceived Ability in Physical Activity Self-Definition
  Michael Leggiadro
  June 29, 1:30, T215
   
• Spatial Pattern Learning in the Pole Box: The Development of a General Measure
  Jason Huntington
  July 27, 10:00,T215

Thesis Proposals - Fall 1999

• The influence of acculturation on self-concept and personality questionnaire response style in an Indian-American sample
  Ronak Chokshi
   
• The effects of prenatal stress and alcohol on the prenatal testosterone surge on days 19 and 20 of gestation in fetal male rats
  Jin Ho Park
   
• The effects of prenatal stress and/or alcohol exposure on the prenatal T surge on fetal days 17 and 18 of gestation in male rats
  Maria Schepise
   
• Individual differences in personality and personal choice: A closer correspondence of theory and measurement
  Mark N. Bing
   
• The influence of various stimulus types on young children's taxonomic label extensions
  Angela Maglio
   
• An investigation in measurement mechanics for the social phobia and anxiety inventory: Concretizing the frequency scale
  Andrea Sharp
   
• Relationship between morality codes and value types in U.S. and Turkish samples
  Ozge Gurel

Thesis Proposals - Spring 1999

• "The effects of prenatal stress and alcohol on the postnatal testosterone surge in newborn male rats".
  John Denning
   
• "Spatial Pattern Learning by Rats in the Pole Box: Pattern Representation or Response Sets?"
  Christine Zeiler
   
• "The Development of Young Children's Narrative Skills: Links to Socio-economic Status and Maternal Style of Interaction"
  Amy Lutz
   
• "Irrational Ideation and Pessimistic Explanatory Style: Strengthening the Existing Rational Emotive Behavior Theory of Personality"
  Janine Hawley
   
• "Maternal Book Reading and Children's Vocabulary in Two SES Groups"
  Melanie Burns
   
• "The effects of socioeconomic status and modeling on young children's word defining abilities"
  Nicole Lundgren
   
• "Concentration ability and the efficacy of distraction and redefinition as pain"
  Jennifer Clifford, "An empirical investigation of the two-factor model of critical thinking"
  Sarah Ozol

Thesis Proposals - Fall 1998

• "An investigation of seasonality and premenstrual dysphoric disorder symptoms in samples of students from USA and Finland".
  Johanna Schaaf
   
• "A psychometric investigation of the validity of inconsistent responses in structured personality assessment"
  Catherine Parrish
   
• "Gender differences in the effects of interpersonal styles on peer relationship quality"
  Emily Ansell
   
• "Objective and perceived similarity in personality traits and the quality of peer relationships: A study of roommates"
  Jennifer Sherker

Thesis Proposals - Spring 1998

• "Free testosterone and anger/irritability across the menstrual cycle: Implications for the pathophysiology of premenstrual dysphoric disorder".
  Anna Rusiewicz
   
• "The performance of male and female rats on the standard and reference memory radial maze tasks"
  Michael Drew
   
• "Effects of affective valence of stimuli and mood on recall and recognition"
  Patricia Lee
   
• "An investigation of validity for the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory: The influence of socially desirable responding"
  Valerie Harwell
   
• "The effect of social activation of self-relevant information on self-definition"
  Nicole Wright
   
• "An investigation of the structure of premenstrual dysphoric disorder symptoms across student and community samples"
  Megan Storey
   
• "The applicability of response latency theory in personality assessment: The effect of varying response format"
  Kurrie Wells